Abstract
Chun & Potter (1995) found that the difference in phonological familiarity between targets and distracters influences their attentional blink. Mizuno & Matsui (2010), however, supposed that the difference not in phonological familiarity but in visual familiarity should influence attentional blink of native Japanese readers because they had found that Japanese rely not on phonological codes but on visual codes in letter processing, and conducted an experiment and proved the validity of their supposition. This study explored if phonological codes had little influence on attentional blink for Japanese readers by examining the effect of articulatory suppression on attentional blink of both native readers. The results showed that articulatory suppression did not influence attentional blink of Japanese readers but that of English readers, indicating that Japanese readers do not rely heavily on phonological codes while English readers do even in attentional blink experiment.
